On hyperbolic 3-manifolds realizing the maximal distance between toroidal Dehn fillings

DOI10.2140/AGT.2005.5.463MaRDI QIDQ2571354zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hiroshi Goda, Masakazu Teragaito

Publication date 1 November 2005

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501148, https://eudml.org/doc/125680, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol5/agt-5-21.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

Dehn filling knot toroidal filling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: For a hyperbolic 3-manifold M with a torus boundary component, all but finitely many Dehn fillings on the torus component yield hyperbolic 3-manifolds. In this paper, we will focus on the situation where M has two exceptional Dehn fillings, both of which yield toroidal manifolds. For such situation, Gordon gave an upper bound for the distance between two slopes of Dehn fillings. In particular, if M is large, then the distance is at most 5. We show that this upper bound can be improved by 1 for a broad class of large manifolds.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a hyperbolic \(3\)-manifold with a torus boundary component \(T_0\), in the sense that \(M\) with its boundary tori removed admits a complete hyperbolic structure with totally geodesic boundary. For a slope \(\gamma\) on \(T_0\), \(\gamma\)-Dehn filling \(M(\gamma)\) is hyperbolic except finitely many slopes, which are referred to as exceptional slopes. The case where \(M(\gamma)\) contains an essential torus is typical, and such a slope is said to be toroidal. The paper under review focuses on this situation. For two slopes, the distance between them is the minimal geometric intersection number. Roughly speaking, an upper bound for the distance between exceptional slopes gives that for the number of exceptional slopes. \textit{C. Gordon} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 350, 1713--1790 (1998; Zbl 0896.57011)] showed that if two slopes \(\gamma_1\) and \(\gamma_2\) are toroidal then the distance \(\Delta\) between them is at most eight, and there are only four specific manifolds with \(\Delta\geq 6\). A manifold \(M\) is said to be large if \(H_2(M,\partial M-T_0)\not=0\), following \textit{Y. Q. Wu} [J. Differ. Geom. 48, 407--437 (1998; Zbl 0917.57015)]. Since the above four specific manifolds are not large, \(\Delta\leq 5\) for a large \(M\) manifold. \textit{C. McA. Gordon} [Geom. Topol. Monogr. 2, 177--199 (1999; Zbl 0948.57014)] asked if there is a large \(M\) with \(\Delta=5\). The main result of the paper under review is that \(\Delta\leq 4\), unless the boundary of \(M\) consists of at most two tori. Thus a broad class of large manifolds cannot admit two toroidal slopes at distance five. This is also the first step to determine all hyperbolic \(3\)-manifolds that admit two toroidal slopes at distance five. The proof is based on a long analysis of the graph pair coming from the intersection of two punctured tori as in earlier works in this area.

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